The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.